Debian Wheezy system.

Since the last missive I reformatted the bad system and installed  a minimal system. I then very carefully set up rsyncd on the system to be backed up. I checked out the rsync connection with:
       telnet <target system> 873
I then restored one file to the backup computer. Once this worked I started backing up one directory at a time  using the GUI and the direct backup method. The directories involved are /etc /home, /root and /var. I started with the smallest first and worked up to the largest. Everything worked fine for /etc. /root and /var. When I tried to backup / home the system chugged along for a long time and then went to sleep. I was monitoring the CPU, memory and network usage throughout all of these processes. I had to manually stop the process by killing the PID. The restore log had the following entries:

2012-11-30 09:53:41 Started restore on TargetComputer (pid=7601)
2012-11-30 10:59:23 Restore failed on TargetComputer (aborted by signal=TERM)
2012-11-30 10:59:23 TargetComputer: File::RsyncP::FileList::encode: missing rdev
on device file home/gary/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/socket
2012-11-30 10:59:23 TargetComputer: File::RsyncP::FileList::encode: missing rdev
on device file home/gary/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.socket
2012-11-30 10:59:23 TargetComputer: File::RsyncP::FileList::encode: missing rdev
on device file home/gary/.speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock

I did a lot of searching of the internet  and while I found references to the problem, I didn't fine a clear solution. I did find reference to the -D switch for rsync as being related  but nothing substantive. I use inetd.conf to start the rsync daemon with an entry of :

    rsync   stream  tcp  nowait   root  /usr/bin/rsync   rsyncd --daemon

If the -D switch must be included, should it be something like rsyncd -D daemon.

All help very much appreciated.

Gary R.

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